Economic

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Economic Social Issues (1800-1850)
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Industrial Revolution in America

• International tension between 1807-1812 caused
  U.S. investors to focus less on overseas shipping
  and more on industry
• New England became Americas first industrial
  center

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Agriculture in the North

• Farmers relied on crops that did not require much
  labor
• Farmers also raised livestock
• The need for slave labor decreased and slavery
  began to die out in the north

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Cotton is King in the South

• 1793, Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
• Made cleaning cotton quicker and easier

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Cotton Gin
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Cotton is King in the South

• Farmers began buying huge pieces of land to grow
  cotton
• This meant a large slave labor force was needed
  to work the land

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Cotton is King in the South

• As the cotton output increased in the South, so
  did the import of slaves
• Southern slave owners justified this increase as
  a Necessary Evil

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Interchangeable Parts

• Allowed the factory system possible in the North
• Northern industry expanded quickly

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The Erie Canal

• Provided a link between the Great Lakes and the
  Atlantic Ocean
• New York City becomes an international trading
  center

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Robert Fulton

• Invented the steamboat
• Made river navigation easier
• Helped improve transportation of goods

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Samuel Morse

• Invented the telegraph and the code for using the
  machine

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Original Telegraph Machine
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John Deere

• Invented the steel plow
• Makes hard ground easier to break up.

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Steel Plow
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Cyrus McCormick

• Invented the mechanical reaper

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Immigration

• Most immigrants came from northern Europe
• Americans began to resent immigrants taking jobs
• Immigrants faced discrimination

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Political Parties and Problems
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Nativism

• Nativists opposed immigration in order to protect
  the interests of native born American citizens

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Know-Nothing Party

• Called the American Party and started by
  Protestants
• Opposed the immigration of Catholics
• Felt that too many Catholics would allow the Pope
  to have influence over the government

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